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Chicago examiner vol x no 26 a m sunday Chicago december 26 1909 sunday price five cents heavy snowstorm adds to joy bot ties up the railroads lix-lnc-h fah gives â€¢ zest to home parties and brings â– out the sleighs festive scenes at parks small boys christen new sleds while fathers get â€¢ shoveling exercise the worst snowstorm of the year was the christmas gift of the elements to the middle west in lavish generosity it was | unexcelled and by yesterday afternoon a slushy blanket six inches thick covered from the missouri river east to the at lantic the country was in the grasp of the storm with railroad schedules practically abandoned passenger trains on nil lines were from six to twenty-three hours be hind time and freight service was almost it a standstill the Chicago & northwestern train from portland ore due at 8:35 o'clock friday evening arrived in Chicago at 7 p m yes a cold wave dogging behind the bllzzatd made itself felt toward night fair and much colder weather ls predicted for to day with the thermometer hovering about 10 degrees above zero the snow brought to many unemployed men the opportunity to earn a christmas dinner and a little more besides before 7 clock yesterday morning a force of 300 workers was shoveling snow from the downtown streets of the first ward each man received 2 for six and a half hours labor instead of the customary eight hours tut a sort of christmas benefaction from christen sleds and skates while older folk were experiencing the joys of shelter and christmas reunions amid steam heated surroundings thou sands of children frolicked in the snow it wiis the soft heavy sort that made snow balling an irresistible temptation to young sters in some of the parks enough ice was cleared off for skating in the after noon and gleaming christmas skates as veil as sleds had thetr first tryout many passengers on a railroad trnin who tud traveled far in the expectation of riassing christmas in a happy reunion with blends or relatives spejit the day instead watching the miles of snow-bound farms and forests glide slowly past his car win low some of the wayfarers on trains ar riving ten boms late wfere in ill-humor tliers said they and their fellow passen g-ers had made shift to pass a fairly merry jvislmas among . themselves while the icjcoaiotives battled with the drifts weather forecaster satisfied the blizzard was in strict accordance with weather forecaster henry j cox's idsal f christmas day if any one dis agrees with his views an emphatic protest should be filed it was just the kind of christmas weather mest people like asserted pro fessor cox whoever heard auy cue sighing for a green christmas i never did happy family parties gathered around the fireside with the wind and snow howl ing outside is my idea of a real christ mas jfrom a weather point of view ac cording to my reports santa claus had line reindeer sledding all over the north ern states iu the south there was a gen era r f n letter carriers were the hardest hit the morning delivery with its heuvy install ment of gifts was made at a disadvantage .-. some of the residential districts the carriers hired a horse and wagon at their ni expense on the slreet railway lines snowplowa were running all friday night and yester day forenoou with the few teams to con fend with the cars for the most part were fun on time 550 men to shovel snow 7 was surprised when more than 300 men showed up for work shoveling snow liefore 7 a m said first ward superin tendent cochrane later 250 additional men applied for work and we engaged them for to-morrow to-morrow we shall have an army of men and 4*30 teams clearing away ihe snow downtown it is the first christmas day in three years that we have had to shovel snow xincoln park was transformed into a picturesque country of undiscovered moun tains and deep valleys by the tons of snow thnt drifted from the open spaces up among the trees and across the ice of the lagoon many holiday merrymakers visited the park in quest of ice skating but they were disappointed heavy drifts on the lagoon in some places twelve feet deep prevented the park employes from successfully clear ing the lagoon for skating it is expected however that the skating to-day will be it was from the west and the northwest tint most of the delays on the railroads were reported through trains on the chi cago & northwestern came plowing in from 5 to *__:; hours behind seheduja ue rock island denver limited was over five hours late the Chicago burlington & qulncy's train from denver was tardy lgly two hours while the overland lim itpd on the c m & st p did not arrive rill seven hours after its appointed time santa fe trains also late the santa fe'^s trains from the coast all felt the gale and lost from two to three woman known to london poor as lady bountiful mayoress in rags assists london poor tours east nd in disguise and pro vides christmas dinners for unfortunates london dec 25 lady knill wife of the lord mayor of loudon alarmed by the reports of increasing poverty has taken the lead in mapping out relief work it became known to-day that for some time she has been making pilgrimages in the east end disguised as a poor woman with ragged clothing as a result many en joyed christmas dinners who otherwise would have gone hungry already known as a lady bountiful in london to hundreds of families she has now turned her attention to scientific re lief work she has laid her plans for the alleviation of conditions nloug the embank ment before a committee of prominent men headed by john burns of the cabinet as lady mayoress i am going to make this work a part of the administration of the city i,f possible she said to-day my lirst work at the mansion bouse is for the poor - i hope to do great good gage likes boys thrift former banker congratulates young depositors at paterson paterson n j dec 25 lyman j gage former secretary of the treasury and his young bride who became mrs gage on thanksgiving day were interested specta tors at the annual christmas dinner given by major i a hall to the newsboys of paterson and in the awarding of money prizes by mr hall to the three boys saving tlie largest amounts through a bank ac count started by him for 120 boys last year all but two of the boys turned in their bankbooks and isaac diamond was fouud to be the winner of the flrst prize with a bank account of 154 this is u remarkable showing com mented mr gage und it teaches a moral lesson of the highest importance that only two boys have failed to take advan tage of the start given them by mr hall and that oue of them should save so much as 151 in one year is remarkable indeed and it seems to me it would be a splendid thing if a similar policy could be started waioug the newsboys of every city in the land mr and mrs gage are here as the guests of mr and mrs hall woman dies under auto physician also fatally injured wlien car turns tnrtle terre haute ind dec s mrs james proctor was instantly killed and dr w cuftbangh was fatally injured to-day when an automobile turned turtle near syl vania north of terre haute mrs proc tor's six-year-old stepson escaped injury the machine skidded on the snow coming dowu a steep grade mrs proctor fell un der the car and wns mangled dr curt batigh also was caught uuder the heavy part of the automobile and when surgeons arrived at a farmhouse to which he was carried they found him dying his home is in tangier and mrs proctor lives in portland mills he was taking her to freeman to spend christmas h m'k twombley dying wt k vanderbilt's brothcr-in-lntr ah but beyond hope new york dec 25 hope for the re covery of hamilton mck twombley brother-in-law of william k vanderbilt was all but abandoned to-day mr twombley who is more than sixty years old has been ill since the death of his sou by drowning last summer a mouth ago he retired to his home in madison n j mr twombley has been identified as a director with the vanderbilt and other railroads and many industrial corporations he has also been prominent ip club circles and the madison farm has long been an agriculture show place villages in spain swept by floods 5,000 on portuguese frontier without food railroads are washed away cities are . threatened hurricane followed by tor rent of rain leaves devas tation in wake madrid dec 25 telegraphic com munication with the flood-stricken district in the northwestern provinces was partly restored to-day and as the wires began to work details of the catastrophe were re vealed to the government officials who for several days have beeu planuing relief measures the flrst message received to-day report ed that hundreds hr.d been drowned that thousands were starving and that millions of dollars damage had been done later telegrams still indicated that the loss of life had been heavy and that possibly 200 had been killed as the means of commu nication are bettered even this estimate may have to be revised five thousand troops are at work to-day in the stricken district helping to rescue the living succor the starving and bury the dead the residents in many places have sought refuge in trees and on housetops and in many places have been without food for three days railroads are destroyed floods and devastation have followed a terrific hurricane that has raged along the portuguese frontier the hurricane was accompanied by torrential rains that swelled the rivers high above their banks and spread death and instruction lu their path as they swept down the valiey several hundred miles of railroad were swept away in a few hours bridges were wrecked and roads com pletely obliterated irreparable damage has been done to the crops which have been practically destroyed as a result of the latter fact the inhabitants of the re gion will be a care upon e government for the uext six months twenty relief trains left madrid this morning and more will go during the after noon and night king directs relief work they will penetrate as far ns possible into the ravaged district and fiom the point where they will have to stop provi sions will be carried forward by pack trains of mu'es two hundred nurses ami thirty doctors were passengers on the re j lief trains which carried complete equip ment for the establishment of fieid hos pitals king alfonso has directed that every ef j fort be made to tush the relief work and j if the latter reports are worse he will go to head the work himself queen victoria is a'so aiding in the work i of relief and has sent a large sum of money from her private purse for thei work relief funds will be collected in all i the large cities of spain lisbon dec 25 whole villages are un der wuter in the valleys of the tormes and [ dnro rivers fully 5,000 are without food | and shelter from the rains that continue i to fill the rivers and the waters gaining j in volume as they sweep down the valleys threaten to destroy some of the larger cities the government lacks money for organ ized relieif wor,k but king manuel is do j ing as much ns possible thiis government will make plans to co-operate with spain wherever possible gompers criticises Taft also condemns recent district su preme court action washington d c dec 25 samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor publishes an editorial this month in the federationist the official organ of the labor body criticising both the action of the district supreme court and the recommendation of president taft's message to congress with reference to the necessity for notice and hearing before injunction writs are granted the former is condemned ou the ground that it was without sanction of the law and the latter for the alleged reason that the president did not advocate anything that could be attached to an existing law of modify it burned writing santa flaming oil ends xote and baby correspondent may die washington dec 25 eager to make known the wishes of her childish heart dorothy morton three years old called the child of the regiment nt fort myer the only daughter of mr and mrs frank j morton the former a member of troop c fifteenth cavalry probably was fatallv burned nt her home on the outskirts of fort myer while scrawling a note to santa claus a lighted lamp which her father was filling overturned igniting her cloth ing her mother who ran to her rescue also was severely burned and the father received injuries about the arms military author dead general ezra a carman contrib utor to encyclopedia washington dec 25.-after a short illness general ezra a carman died here this morning of pneumonia he was seventy-six years old general carman won a wide reputation as an authority on war he contributed 220 war articles to the encyclopedia americana 100,000,000 year's gifts of new york one city's benevolence in 12 months would more than buy jap navy high record is reached money enough to drive away poverty of nations if prop erly used new york dec 25 citizens of new york city in the year now closing gave away to public causes more than the aa toirtkllng amount of 100,000,000 no year in any country not to say any single city ever has had to its credit in recorded time such munificence of giving in the whole united states where pri vate riches have gene most lavishly from those who acquired them toward purposes of benevolence the high-water marl was attained in 1002 when the total bene factions throughout the country were fiio.atjo.ooo last year the benefactions for the coun try amounted to 57,!)80,fi00 the year be fore 50.000,000 this year these were doubled by citizens of new york city alone acknowledged benefactions ln amounts of above 5,000 reach the sum of 100,800 428 of those which were 5,000 or less and of those given under tseal of confidence where the right hand did not let the left hand know what was being done the ag gregate it is estimated would exceed the yearly total for any country in the world i only money counted no account is taken of gifts of works of art etc only of money money grows in bigger clusters and at a faster rate than it used to when ! george peabody forty years ago or so during his life and through his will left 99,000.01 to public uses he touched the highest point of philanthropy r>p to that time had a funeral iu westminster and liis body was brought home from london in a british warship three new york citizens have given cas uiuly in a twelvemonth more than that each and one of them three times that here is the record for the whole united slates in ihe last ten years â€¢*Â» i 39.14___t\p04 *** oi 330.000 1 i&'k 4tf.o_-)(hd*Â»|*hjc9 i 1901 ...... m,(jptr,t_<_t_\_oob loo.iioiy.wo 1 19l<i lio.-ira.oo^isot ai.ootiooo i 1 * 90 * iuos.ouu 1908 ....... ot-fimj-wh it is hard to make plain a realisation of j the mot tjuyv 100,000,000 which this city's rich men have distributed out of their accumulations it is one-fifth more thun all japan's present battleships cost * to build equals the yearly upkeep of great britain's naval establishment would buy two navies like russia's enou-gh to abolish poverty it is several millions more than the pro . duction of gold ln this country and ap : proxlmates the output of the transvaal | fifteen times beyond the nunnnl ndminis i trntive cost of australia it is the amount which nathan straus ouce declared wauld i lf correctly applied abolish imiverty from i this countr john s kennedy's bequests lead with j 30,000,000 next come andrew carnegie's disbursements of 10,848,011 next john 1 rockefeller's 1:1.252,000 and john m burke's 4,500,000 smoot stirs up clergy points out that utah was launched on prophet's birthday / washington dec 25 local clergy men are angry because of the fact that at the launching of the united states newest and largest battleship the utah at cam den n j thursday senator reed smoot pointed with pride to the coincidence thnt the launching should have taken place on the anniversary of the birth of the mor mon prophet joseph smith none of the clergymen objected to the date set for the maiden dip of this big fighting machine but they believe that senator smoot'a reference will stir up considerable com ment throughout the united states on ac count of the general opposition to mor monism twain plans funeral humorist supervises arrangements for daughter's burial i new york dec 25 mark twain left stormfleld his home nt redding conn this evening for eliuira n y with the body of his daughter jean who was found dead in her bathtub friday morning the funeral will take place at elniira to-morrow afternoon with interment beside the grave of his wife who died in 1904 the aged humorist-philosopher has borne up bravely under his bereavement although as he said it was the saddest christmas of his life fully composed he supervised all the arrangements for the removal of the body and the funeral . _ train kills three men victims walking track in storm fail to see peril terre haute ind dec 25 three men were killed early this morning by nn evansville & terre haute fast north-bound passenger train they were walking near shelburn in the direction the train was going and in the heavy snowstorm evident ly did not hear or see the traiu nor did the engineer see them until he was upon them the victims were miners they had been celebrating christmas eve and were making their way home to the min ing camp two miles out their names i *â– Â«*,â€¢â– _. uet iwht-fc 10 dead in vienna wreck trains collide in bohemia twenty eight ape seriously injured special cable to the sunday examiner prague dec 25 a passenger train bound for vienna collided with a freight train at uhersko station nenr chotseen beheniia to-day resulting in the death of ten persons twenty-eight were seriously injured and more than a score suffered slight hurts races in blizzard to wed train to Chicago day late Chicago girl and portland ore man who had a christmas wedding yesterday at the hotel la saue despite a day's delay in the bridegroom's arrival because of snowstorm c h loughman after long delay arrives in time to win christmas bride stalled in snow drifts delayed nearly twenty-four hours en route from portland ore to Chicago charles h longhinan ar rived via the Chicago & northwestern at 7 o'clock last night was met at the station by his bride-to-be miss j elizabeth wood jumped into her automobile rushed to the hotel da salle and now they are mr and mrs charles h loughman mrs loughman is a daughter of donald wallace wood of the firm of wood broth ers of the stock yards and a niece of james wood mr loughman is a son of mr and mrs joseph loughman of engle wood n j his father being a millionaire cement manufacturer their engagement announced several months ago miss wood and mr loughman were to have been married iu january but last tuesday the bride was electrified by receiving a telegram a portion of which read leaving to-night arrive friday night northwestern b:3s meet me wire you en route plans christmas wedding there was more to the telegram of course but miss wood did not make it public at any rate miss wood immediately prepared to be married at 6 o'clock christ mas night when mr loughman boarded the train he wired her wednesday morn ing he sent through another telegram and at intervals during the day he worked the telegraph wires thursday snow began to fall in the far west anl the train began to be delayed he wired from the first station at which the train arrived that he might be late and as the day wore on and the snow con tinued to fall and the train was delayed more and more the bridegroom-elect began to get restive telegram after telegram flashed over the wires recording his thuognva an fecv.ngs and when friday morning arrived he was beginning to get desperate all that day he kept tlie wires hot while miss wood perused one telegram after another and n her part kept the telephone busy be tween her apartment at the la salle and the Chicago & northwestern office by friday night when the train was due to arrive it wns reported ten hour late and at midnight the train dispatcher was score of titles at mrs astor's feet london clubs believe captain ponsonby though young may succeed in courtship new york dec 25 until mrs eva willing astor really goes to the altar a second time gossip will be busy engaging her now to one man again to another for that is the penalty of being young rich beautiful and almost free while it will be several months yet before her interlocu tory decree of divorce becomes final and operative yet her friends have already be gun planning for her future in a matrimo nial way her friend mrs beujamin guinness in sists that lord curzon of keddleston will be the man of mrs astor's choice the talk of london clubs favors captain the honorable cyril myles erabazon pon sonby second son of the earl of bess borough and several others have been mentioned over fashionable tea tables mrs astor who iu the meantime is spending the christmas holidays at sossio bury park with the earl and countess of essex is preserving a discreet silence which some construe as eloquent for she denies nothiug at the same time confirms no more a marriage with lord curzon would be a most desirable alliance from every point of view in the first place their ages would hp suitable and his position would insure her the place iu british society that she has long coveted he is a widower with two children his wife who died several years ago was miss mary leiter a daughter of mrs levi 7 leiter she was a sister of the countess of suffolk mrs colin campbell and of joseph leiter ou the other hand captain ponsonby who has also been most attentive to her is much younger than mrs astor only twenty-eight years of age he is ver handsome and comes of an ancient fain zelaya flees on mexican ship u s to a ct senate will hear of nicara gua's former president's escape from country where rebels menaced capital government troops starving in woods twelve-year-olds who are living on leaves sought by estrada's officers in an effort to enlist them diaz's minister meets zelaya in conference france may bar the fleeing central american dictator as it did castro has millions deposited abroad san jtjan dei stj3 seo 33 it wu learned here to-day that for it was learned her to-day that f or corlnto on the mexican gunboat guerrero for salina cruz mexico zelaya arrived at corinto yesterday from managua and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon hoarded tha mexican vessel belaya's departure was very secret only a few of his most loyal friend knew that the former dictator of tht country was about to boar the mexican gunboat the c)dp left without being molested hy the â€ž united states officials washington dec 25 the escape of zelaya from nicaragua on a mexican gan boat una the belief that ' zelaya will make his way to belgium escaping punishmeut for the killing of cannon and iroee amer lean citizens will he discussed in the sen ate when congress reconvenes senator rayner of maryland hi_p a resolu tion before the senate committee on for eign relations providing for the apprehen sion and punishment of zelaya critics of the administration in its failure to bring about the punishment of zelaya will en deavor to bring out this reason on this effort opportunity will be afford ed for n discussion of the course of secre tary knox with reference to zelaya and the nicaraguan situation senator rayner would not comment on the matter to-day it is known however that he is unwilling to let the matter rest where it is he wants zelaya punished some other senators take like positions and are expected to indorse senator ray ner's position there 18 a disposition tc criticise secretary knox for permitting zelaya to leave nicaragua soil if zelaya has made good his escape it is believed to have been the wish ol the state department that zelaya should have fallen into the hands of general estrada and his adherents while zelaya might not have been tried by the niea raguans for the killing of the americans it is believed other charges would have been laid against him the punishment fot which if proven would have been suf ficiently grave to have satisfied thc united states there is doubt at the state department as to whether this country could have in sisted upon the trial of the deposed rulei for the killing of cannon and groce the fact that zelaya was permitted to leave nlcnragua indicates that secretary kuox has come to the conclusion that the united states could not insist on the trial or pre vent his escape from the country he has ru'ed so tyrannically causes a sensation special cable to the sunday examiner corinto dec 25 a sensation was caused here to-day hen it . was learned that zelaya had escaped on the mexican gunboat guerrero when zelaya arrived here yesterda afternoon he had a long interview with the mexican minister during which ar rangements were made for him to take flight on the mexican ship the united states steamship buffalo with 700 marines on board is still here but as far as is known the officers of the ship made no attempt to prevent zelaya flight americans are anxiously awaitlrig word from washington as to the stand the united states will take in mexico aidlug zelaya to escape france may bar zelaya paris dec 25 the foreign orace has under consideration the case of ex-presi dent zelaya of nicaragua and it was re ported to-day in sem-official circles that if he attempts to flee to paris he will not be allowed shelter the exact conn of the government however has not been definitely decided it is snid but the prece dent followed in the case of castro ts likely to prevail in this much depends on the future stand of the united stntpfil toward zelaya he is reputed to havnl 20,000,000 in antwerp and brussels a-.vm fe&tmwed on sth page 2d column continued on 2d page 9th column w'l the Chicago â– m l m sunday examiner g i fy-'sr ** as more circulation than the k a i vl Chicago tribune Chicago inter y.jjj v ocean and Chicago record her ids s aid combined j this edition consists of m tfel i * 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Chicago examiner vol x no 26 a m sunday Chicago december 26 1909 sunday price five cents heavy snowstorm adds to joy bot ties up the railroads lix-lnc-h fah gives â€¢ zest to home parties and brings â– out the sleighs festive scenes at parks small boys christen new sleds while fathers get â€¢ shoveling exercise the worst snowstorm of the year was the christmas gift of the elements to the middle west in lavish generosity it was | unexcelled and by yesterday afternoon a slushy blanket six inches thick covered from the missouri river east to the at lantic the country was in the grasp of the storm with railroad schedules practically abandoned passenger trains on nil lines were from six to twenty-three hours be hind time and freight service was almost it a standstill the Chicago & northwestern train from portland ore due at 8:35 o'clock friday evening arrived in Chicago at 7 p m yes a cold wave dogging behind the bllzzatd made itself felt toward night fair and much colder weather ls predicted for to day with the thermometer hovering about 10 degrees above zero the snow brought to many unemployed men the opportunity to earn a christmas dinner and a little more besides before 7 clock yesterday morning a force of 300 workers was shoveling snow from the downtown streets of the first ward each man received 2 for six and a half hours labor instead of the customary eight hours tut a sort of christmas benefaction from christen sleds and skates while older folk were experiencing the joys of shelter and christmas reunions amid steam heated surroundings thou sands of children frolicked in the snow it wiis the soft heavy sort that made snow balling an irresistible temptation to young sters in some of the parks enough ice was cleared off for skating in the after noon and gleaming christmas skates as veil as sleds had thetr first tryout many passengers on a railroad trnin who tud traveled far in the expectation of riassing christmas in a happy reunion with blends or relatives spejit the day instead watching the miles of snow-bound farms and forests glide slowly past his car win low some of the wayfarers on trains ar riving ten boms late wfere in ill-humor tliers said they and their fellow passen g-ers had made shift to pass a fairly merry jvislmas among . themselves while the icjcoaiotives battled with the drifts weather forecaster satisfied the blizzard was in strict accordance with weather forecaster henry j cox's idsal f christmas day if any one dis agrees with his views an emphatic protest should be filed it was just the kind of christmas weather mest people like asserted pro fessor cox whoever heard auy cue sighing for a green christmas i never did happy family parties gathered around the fireside with the wind and snow howl ing outside is my idea of a real christ mas jfrom a weather point of view ac cording to my reports santa claus had line reindeer sledding all over the north ern states iu the south there was a gen era r f n letter carriers were the hardest hit the morning delivery with its heuvy install ment of gifts was made at a disadvantage .-. some of the residential districts the carriers hired a horse and wagon at their ni expense on the slreet railway lines snowplowa were running all friday night and yester day forenoou with the few teams to con fend with the cars for the most part were fun on time 550 men to shovel snow 7 was surprised when more than 300 men showed up for work shoveling snow liefore 7 a m said first ward superin tendent cochrane later 250 additional men applied for work and we engaged them for to-morrow to-morrow we shall have an army of men and 4*30 teams clearing away ihe snow downtown it is the first christmas day in three years that we have had to shovel snow xincoln park was transformed into a picturesque country of undiscovered moun tains and deep valleys by the tons of snow thnt drifted from the open spaces up among the trees and across the ice of the lagoon many holiday merrymakers visited the park in quest of ice skating but they were disappointed heavy drifts on the lagoon in some places twelve feet deep prevented the park employes from successfully clear ing the lagoon for skating it is expected however that the skating to-day will be it was from the west and the northwest tint most of the delays on the railroads were reported through trains on the chi cago & northwestern came plowing in from 5 to *__:; hours behind seheduja ue rock island denver limited was over five hours late the Chicago burlington & qulncy's train from denver was tardy lgly two hours while the overland lim itpd on the c m & st p did not arrive rill seven hours after its appointed time santa fe trains also late the santa fe'^s trains from the coast all felt the gale and lost from two to three woman known to london poor as lady bountiful mayoress in rags assists london poor tours east nd in disguise and pro vides christmas dinners for unfortunates london dec 25 lady knill wife of the lord mayor of loudon alarmed by the reports of increasing poverty has taken the lead in mapping out relief work it became known to-day that for some time she has been making pilgrimages in the east end disguised as a poor woman with ragged clothing as a result many en joyed christmas dinners who otherwise would have gone hungry already known as a lady bountiful in london to hundreds of families she has now turned her attention to scientific re lief work she has laid her plans for the alleviation of conditions nloug the embank ment before a committee of prominent men headed by john burns of the cabinet as lady mayoress i am going to make this work a part of the administration of the city i,f possible she said to-day my lirst work at the mansion bouse is for the poor - i hope to do great good gage likes boys thrift former banker congratulates young depositors at paterson paterson n j dec 25 lyman j gage former secretary of the treasury and his young bride who became mrs gage on thanksgiving day were interested specta tors at the annual christmas dinner given by major i a hall to the newsboys of paterson and in the awarding of money prizes by mr hall to the three boys saving tlie largest amounts through a bank ac count started by him for 120 boys last year all but two of the boys turned in their bankbooks and isaac diamond was fouud to be the winner of the flrst prize with a bank account of 154 this is u remarkable showing com mented mr gage und it teaches a moral lesson of the highest importance that only two boys have failed to take advan tage of the start given them by mr hall and that oue of them should save so much as 151 in one year is remarkable indeed and it seems to me it would be a splendid thing if a similar policy could be started waioug the newsboys of every city in the land mr and mrs gage are here as the guests of mr and mrs hall woman dies under auto physician also fatally injured wlien car turns tnrtle terre haute ind dec s mrs james proctor was instantly killed and dr w cuftbangh was fatally injured to-day when an automobile turned turtle near syl vania north of terre haute mrs proc tor's six-year-old stepson escaped injury the machine skidded on the snow coming dowu a steep grade mrs proctor fell un der the car and wns mangled dr curt batigh also was caught uuder the heavy part of the automobile and when surgeons arrived at a farmhouse to which he was carried they found him dying his home is in tangier and mrs proctor lives in portland mills he was taking her to freeman to spend christmas h m'k twombley dying wt k vanderbilt's brothcr-in-lntr ah but beyond hope new york dec 25 hope for the re covery of hamilton mck twombley brother-in-law of william k vanderbilt was all but abandoned to-day mr twombley who is more than sixty years old has been ill since the death of his sou by drowning last summer a mouth ago he retired to his home in madison n j mr twombley has been identified as a director with the vanderbilt and other railroads and many industrial corporations he has also been prominent ip club circles and the madison farm has long been an agriculture show place villages in spain swept by floods 5,000 on portuguese frontier without food railroads are washed away cities are . threatened hurricane followed by tor rent of rain leaves devas tation in wake madrid dec 25 telegraphic com munication with the flood-stricken district in the northwestern provinces was partly restored to-day and as the wires began to work details of the catastrophe were re vealed to the government officials who for several days have beeu planuing relief measures the flrst message received to-day report ed that hundreds hr.d been drowned that thousands were starving and that millions of dollars damage had been done later telegrams still indicated that the loss of life had been heavy and that possibly 200 had been killed as the means of commu nication are bettered even this estimate may have to be revised five thousand troops are at work to-day in the stricken district helping to rescue the living succor the starving and bury the dead the residents in many places have sought refuge in trees and on housetops and in many places have been without food for three days railroads are destroyed floods and devastation have followed a terrific hurricane that has raged along the portuguese frontier the hurricane was accompanied by torrential rains that swelled the rivers high above their banks and spread death and instruction lu their path as they swept down the valiey several hundred miles of railroad were swept away in a few hours bridges were wrecked and roads com pletely obliterated irreparable damage has been done to the crops which have been practically destroyed as a result of the latter fact the inhabitants of the re gion will be a care upon e government for the uext six months twenty relief trains left madrid this morning and more will go during the after noon and night king directs relief work they will penetrate as far ns possible into the ravaged district and fiom the point where they will have to stop provi sions will be carried forward by pack trains of mu'es two hundred nurses ami thirty doctors were passengers on the re j lief trains which carried complete equip ment for the establishment of fieid hos pitals king alfonso has directed that every ef j fort be made to tush the relief work and j if the latter reports are worse he will go to head the work himself queen victoria is a'so aiding in the work i of relief and has sent a large sum of money from her private purse for thei work relief funds will be collected in all i the large cities of spain lisbon dec 25 whole villages are un der wuter in the valleys of the tormes and [ dnro rivers fully 5,000 are without food | and shelter from the rains that continue i to fill the rivers and the waters gaining j in volume as they sweep down the valleys threaten to destroy some of the larger cities the government lacks money for organ ized relieif wor,k but king manuel is do j ing as much ns possible thiis government will make plans to co-operate with spain wherever possible gompers criticises Taft also condemns recent district su preme court action washington d c dec 25 samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor publishes an editorial this month in the federationist the official organ of the labor body criticising both the action of the district supreme court and the recommendation of president taft's message to congress with reference to the necessity for notice and hearing before injunction writs are granted the former is condemned ou the ground that it was without sanction of the law and the latter for the alleged reason that the president did not advocate anything that could be attached to an existing law of modify it burned writing santa flaming oil ends xote and baby correspondent may die washington dec 25 eager to make known the wishes of her childish heart dorothy morton three years old called the child of the regiment nt fort myer the only daughter of mr and mrs frank j morton the former a member of troop c fifteenth cavalry probably was fatallv burned nt her home on the outskirts of fort myer while scrawling a note to santa claus a lighted lamp which her father was filling overturned igniting her cloth ing her mother who ran to her rescue also was severely burned and the father received injuries about the arms military author dead general ezra a carman contrib utor to encyclopedia washington dec 25.-after a short illness general ezra a carman died here this morning of pneumonia he was seventy-six years old general carman won a wide reputation as an authority on war he contributed 220 war articles to the encyclopedia americana 100,000,000 year's gifts of new york one city's benevolence in 12 months would more than buy jap navy high record is reached money enough to drive away poverty of nations if prop erly used new york dec 25 citizens of new york city in the year now closing gave away to public causes more than the aa toirtkllng amount of 100,000,000 no year in any country not to say any single city ever has had to its credit in recorded time such munificence of giving in the whole united states where pri vate riches have gene most lavishly from those who acquired them toward purposes of benevolence the high-water marl was attained in 1002 when the total bene factions throughout the country were fiio.atjo.ooo last year the benefactions for the coun try amounted to 57,!)80,fi00 the year be fore 50.000,000 this year these were doubled by citizens of new york city alone acknowledged benefactions ln amounts of above 5,000 reach the sum of 100,800 428 of those which were 5,000 or less and of those given under tseal of confidence where the right hand did not let the left hand know what was being done the ag gregate it is estimated would exceed the yearly total for any country in the world i only money counted no account is taken of gifts of works of art etc only of money money grows in bigger clusters and at a faster rate than it used to when ! george peabody forty years ago or so during his life and through his will left 99,000.01 to public uses he touched the highest point of philanthropy r>p to that time had a funeral iu westminster and liis body was brought home from london in a british warship three new york citizens have given cas uiuly in a twelvemonth more than that each and one of them three times that here is the record for the whole united slates in ihe last ten years â€¢*Â» i 39.14___t\p04 *** oi 330.000 1 i&'k 4tf.o_-)(hd*Â»|*hjc9 i 1901 ...... m,(jptr,t_